Sentence examples for off argument from inspiring English sources

Nearly every segment ends with the anchor shutting off argument and promoting the idea that they will have to agree to disagree.

For our result we rely on a cut off argument.

The most serious concern was that, while there is evidence for an anthocyanin role in defense, there was not very good support for a flux trade off argument with respect to the role of lignin, especially since anthocyanins can act directly as antimicrobial compounds of the phytoalexin class in other species, without invoking a lignin link.

Things that could set off arguments.

He shrugged off arguments that Mr. Pearson was not qualified to be chief.

In the Senate, Mr. Leahy has successfully fought off arguments to speed the legislation.

The House voted overwhelmingly today to go ahead with a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, brushing off arguments of environmental and terrorist risks.

They have also largely held off arguments for external regulation of the BBC and overseen the creation of the new BBC Trust as a more independent and rigorous regulator than the current board of governors.

The fact that the department is being required to do what it had originally intended to do did not take the edge off arguments from environmental advocates that Congress had crossed a crucial line.

A34 Backing for Nuclear Waste Plan The House voted, 306 to 117, to proceed with a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, brushing off arguments of environmental and terrorist risks.

We also stopped at Rockport, watching boaters put in and fending off arguments from two city kids who seemed to believe that if we would just agree to exit the park there, we could flag down a taxi to get back to Jim Thorpe, saving ourselves the last 15 miles.